One-person theater

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One-person theater Natias Neutert , in the «Arena», Vienna 1982

In the theater industry, a touring or traveling theater is referred to as a one-person theater , the operator of which is also an author, director, set designer, actor and sometimes even his own tour manager rolled into one.

Franca Rame, on the Italian TV show "Canzonissima", 1962
Nobel Laureate Dario Fo in Cesena, Italy, 2008
Johnny Melville, 2012
Robert Kreis in «Peety's», Cologne 2013

Origin story

It was named after Natias Neutert , who brought the term into play after his appearance ( The poet stumbles into the open ) in the Schauspielhaus Bochum during a panel discussion with Peter Zadek . Its express intention was there, the tapped label one-man-show to be replaced by a name under which theater artists and theater people inside could find alike. In addition, the idea of ​​belonging to the “poor theater” in the sense of Jerzy Grotowski should be signaled, which is characterized by largely dispensing with superfluous props and relying on increased imagination.

Exponents

The fact that there are only a few theatremakers to whom the term one-person theater can be consistently applied and who is therefore difficult to maintain was made cunning by the dramaturgy of the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main at its relevant festival in 1983 Idea to post it as ONE (sometimes two) HUMAN THEATER . As a one-person theater that relies on the one hand on props economy and on the other hand on highly developed improvisational skills, the following exponents have made a name for themselves in Europe in the above-defined sense: Dario Fo , Robert Kreis , Johnny Melville , Natias Neutert and Franca Rame .

Individual evidence

  1. See the time. No. 32, August 4, 1978. http://www.zeit.de/1978/32/zeitmosaik/seite-2
  2. Hildesheimer Zeitung No. 3 / March 1981, Culture, p. 26.
  3. ^ Siegener Zeitung. 4th November 1985.
  4. See the time. No. 32, August 4, 1978.
  5. Zitty. No. 8/1979, p. 57.
  6. Cf. Jerzy Grotowski: The poor theater. (Preface: Peter Brook ). Friedrich Verlag, Velber 1969.
  7. See festival poster, from January 7th to 30th, 1983.